Yuka Ishizuka

Yuka Ishizuka is an outstanding young violinist from Japan.

She holds a Bachelor of Music and Master of Arts with first class honours from the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied with Maurice Hasson and Tomotada Soh, graduating with the highest recital marks ever recorded.

Yuka is the recipient of numerous awards from around the world, including second prize at the Windsor International String Competition, the Tillett Trust Young Artist Platform Award, first prize at the International Young Musicians’ Competition in Italy and the Winfield Small Solo Violin Prize. She is shortly to tour with the YCAT artist Ji Liu supported by the Tunnell Trust. Her many festival appearances include the Salzburg Mozarteum Summer Academy, the Pablo Casals Festival, the Perlman Music Program and the Prussia Cove International Music Seminar where she worked with Ana Chumachenco, Schmuel Ashkanasi, Igor Oistrakh, Itzhak Perlman, Donald Weilerstein, David Takeno, Gyorgy Pauk and Gerard Poulet. She has had the honour of performing for HRH The Earl of Wessex.

Yuka has performed at many major venues including Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Kings Place, Fairfield Halls, West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge and Steinway Hall. She has performed with the Croydon Symphony Orchestra, Guildhall Symphony Orchestra, Camden Chamber Orchestra and the Academy Strings Orchestra at the Royal Academy of Music with whom she premiered the Mozart Concerto for Violin and Piano by Dr Tim Jones in 2010.

Her recent performance with the London Mozart Players was described by the Stratford Herald as “stunning” while Music and Vision called her “an irresistible artist who bought a lyrical outpouring of purest joy”.

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